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The sequel to "Airplanes," the crossover anthem B.o.B and Hayley Williams released last week in Bobby Ray's final gambit to catapult himself out of the rap universe and directly into college dorm-room stardom. And who better than Eminem to re...

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Friend-of-SOTC Ryan Dombal has an excellent chat with everyone's favorite deranged psych-rock provocateurs. The record actually makes a lot more sense (alright, a little more sense) when they talk about it:
Pitchfork: When you listen to "Flas...

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Ordinarily we here at SOTC have no great love for or interest in Coachella, given its considerable distance from... us. But monitoring the web chatter throughout the weekend was somewhat enjoyable anyway -- Sunday night's news that Phoenix's set was ...

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Wretched news from Vancouver, where You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer Devon Clifford collapsed onstage during a show Friday night. He died early Sunday morning. The cause of death was a "massive brain hemorrhage," reports The Canadian Press. The 3...

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This snippet of "All Night Long," the next song to leak from Drake's forthcoming Thank Me Later, seems to be missing at least a Bun B verse if not--as rumor has it--one from Lil Wayne himself. Not missing? Drake sort of proposing to his Y...

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Um, yeah, just do it, you won't regret it. Way more expansive and slightly less furious than the four that preceded it, but quintessentially the same--a carousel of regret, defiance, and romance, turned up to 11. Pair it with these same songs' live d...

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Though the initial, anonymously-made video for "Drunk Girls" was a kind of atrocity of date rape and Girls Gone Wild creepy college hedonism, and surely drove James Murphy crazy with its irony-free take on a song that is nothing if not jo...

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The Hold Steady
Bowery Ballroom
Saturday, April 17
And what better song to kick off the first of two special Record Store Day gigs than the one that ignites on the words "We put it all down on technology and lost everything we invested"?...

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Tonight, a dream collaboration (and one we only thought possible on Wii Sports) unfolds: Snoop Dogg and bowling. Yes, Snoop is performing at the Brooklyn Bowl, thereby creating an evening in which gin, juice, and hand-eye coordination can justifiably...

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It worked for Ke$ha, did you hear? Or it "worked," depending on who you listen to. See, her weekend versions of "Tik Tok" (above) and third single "Your Love is My Drug" are taking a lot of heat on the snippier corners of the internet. People seem em...

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In the week a gigantic cloud of ash and smoke and snow grounded flights all across Europe and wreaked havoc on a delicately balanced Coachella lineup, we rejoiced (for once) at being stuck in New York and, by way of celebrating, joined the hot new Wi...

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At Other Music, Sal Principato (bongo-bashing maestro of Liquid Liquid), Scott Devendorf (bassist/guitarist in the National), and Animal Collective's Avey Tare are manning the DJ booths at various points throughout the day. Plus the Drums, our favori...

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Leave it to The-Dream to make us impatient for the end of a T.I. verse. What works great on a T.I. album--"Like I Do," anyone?--isn't exactly what we want for Love King, the new Dream LP for which this record is presumably intended. The-D...

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"No taxation without representation! The Tea Party movement is sweeping the nation!" Sure! "Why does the liberal media try to curse us/And label us 'birthers' and 'astro-turfers?'" Don't know, man! This particular clip was shot onsite at yesterday's ...

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Saturday, get your fill of house. If you're staying city-side, Louie Vega, half of the Masters at Work production team, headlines Dance Here Too's Saturday-night house massive at Santos. $20 online tickets will get you a four-hour extended set from t...

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Normally we have a zero tolerance for LOL-pop-music-type gags, in which someone old and stentorian soberly reads some silly Soulja Boy versa with a bunch of misplaced gravitas and strategic confusion, but let's make an exception here for ...